YouTube Comment Ranking Is Broken

http://edwardspoonhands.com/post/66425515182/ok-so-my-friend-emma-puts-this-video-of-her

by anon1385 • 13 years ago

42 10 13 years ago

Gaurav322• 13 years ago

You can report this stuff to Google by installing Google Report extension in your chrome browser. Through that you can say your problem easily and I am sure about that in the next algorithm update, they are going to take care of it.

jezebel6• 13 years ago

riiiiiiight

gordaco• 13 years ago

Another way the new comments are broken: whenever you find one of those comments "in reply to [user]", if you click on the message, you're not shown the replied comment like you would have before the changes. Instead, a new window opens, with the same video you were watching starting again from 0:00 (and, at last, the comment you wanted to read). Who decided that awkward behaviour?

jeltz• 13 years ago

I hope this is a bug since the behavior is so terrible I hope no developer did this intentionally. But if it is a bug why has it not been fixed already?

CompiledCode• 13 years ago

That was probably done because comments also appear on one's Google+ page. In that context you want to see what video was commented on.

But it seems extremely clumsy not to implement a solution that takes into account the context in which the comment is shown. Just more evidence that the project was pushed through in a rush, without regard for consequences.

Springtime• 13 years ago

One of my biggest gripes with the new comment system. Now threaded comments provide no context for which user has replied to who. Especially confusing for longer threaded replies.

The new system really should have been opt-in, like their other projects, so little things like this could be ironed out.

ye• 13 years ago

Seriosuly, like a week ago Top Comments would display the actual top comments, as in highest-rated. Then they switched it to most-replied-to.

Now it just shows random crap, definitely not sorted in any meaningful way.

eknkc2• 13 years ago

Another example; there are 'honest trailer' clips for high profile movies, mocking them with a fake trailer. Most of them are pretty fun and comments were likely to be "hey x was funny", "oh god y reference is great", 'lolololol' or similar. You might say that these comments were junk.

But! currently, most of the top comments are from people complaining that the authors "did not understand the movie" or that it was a great movie because "director was living in paris during bla bla".

Wat?

Previous comments were from followers of the channel, they were relevant. New ones are apparently from humorless bitter men.

thedrbrian• 13 years ago

Why are they only men?

Are men only bitter , are women not allowed on the internet?

eknkc2• 13 years ago

I think I subconsciously wrote that as most of the commenter names would indicate they were indeed, men.

Or that I thought "people" in my native language and went with a poor translation in my head.

Or, I'm a douchebag with an anti-women agenda, funded by several organizations. Spreading my idea that women should not be allowed on the internet as you just figured out as a smart person you are.

Who knows.

YouTube Comment Ranking Is Broken

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